FCBayernMunchen wrote:My Italian is admittedly not that good. It's funny because so many Maltese people say they learned it from tv, and I used to watch Italian tv all the time when I was young and more or less understood what's going on, but somehow never picked up the language properly. Reception-wise I'm ok but producing it is very hard for me.

I lost some of it as well ... when I listen it for me is like I am listening to Maltese but when I come to speak sometimes I miss some words...

That used to be my morning show before going to school... when I was 6 I could speak Italian fluently. Never been to Italy though except using it as a transit point... no relation with Italians whatsoever.

JANCKER wrote:That used to be my morning show before going to school... when I was 6 I could speak Italian fluently. Never been to Italy though except using it as a transit point... no relation with Italians whatsoever.

For some reason I always thought you had an Italian past.

Like most Maltese I mostly watched Italia 1. Can't remember what was on in the morning but I remember the Heidi opening song was the cue to leave home. In the afternoon I watched a range of different ones over the years.

FCBayernMunchen wrote:My Italian is admittedly not that good. It's funny because so many Maltese people say they learned it from tv, and I used to watch Italian tv all the time when I was young and more or less understood what's going on, but somehow never picked up the language properly. Reception-wise I'm ok but producing it is very hard for me.

I lost some of it as well ... when I listen it for me is like I am listening to Maltese but when I come to speak sometimes I miss some words...

Same. Lack of vocabulary practice. It amazes me that we learned a language just from watching TV. Associating words with people gestures and images through constant repetition I guess.

Never had a class of Italian in elementary or high school... I had English and French there... at the faculty I picked Italian... and everyone told me that I sound like a native Italian... the professor would let the class in my hands sometimes because I was so much more advanced in it than my classmates.

MaCk0y wrote:Same. Lack of vocabulary practice. It amazes me that we learned a language just from watching TV. Associating words with people gestures and images through constant repetition I guess.

Almost unbelievable but true. You could say that the middle-aged and older speak Italian just as well if not better than English, which is an official language. Italian is being lost more and more with the younger generation and it's mostly because we now have more access to British and American TV.

MaCk0y wrote:Same. Lack of vocabulary practice. It amazes me that we learned a language just from watching TV. Associating words with people gestures and images through constant repetition I guess.

Almost unbelievable but true. You could say that the middle-aged and older speak Italian just as well if not better than English, which is an official language. Italian is being lost more and more with the younger generation and it's mostly because we now have more access to British and American TV.

Exactly. Remember well the time when we only had access to Maltese and Italian/Sicilian TV stations

Used to watch this as entertainment to see if he is going to die on set. Causes me shortness of breath.

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